Join us for a St. Patrick’s Day in August happy hour @the_penfield before heading to Irish Night with the @stpaulsaints! We will have apps, drinks and meet a Shamrock Princess! Thank you to the St. Patrick’s Association for participating! #DiscoverYPro

Our menu is nearly ready to share on our website! One thing we’re really excited for you to try is our Kalua Jackfruit. It will be a delicious mixture of BBQ Kalua jackfruit and broccoli slaw in a pita. Tag a friend below who needs to try it! ❤️

It's never #TooSoon to make your reservations for @SaintPaulHotel's holiday favorite - It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play. Back for its 13th year, opening Dec. 6 and running through Christmas Eve. Reservations and more info: saintpaulhotel.com/iawl #MySaintPaul @wccoradio

In an upstairs bedroom, a pile of new clothing covers an unmade bed. Every possible combination of the new items is attempted, and the most successful outfits are documented in a small notebook for future reference. The goal this year was to purchase back-to-school garments that were casually edgy without being too emo. Each choice should have recognizable labels without too obviously pandering to the constraints of 8th grade acceptability. Think knee-high dark brown Uggs as opposed to mid-calf cognac brown ones. Legible but somehow elevated. Above all, the curation of these new pieces of clothing were meant to recall echoes of the newly cool version of you that was born at Sasha’s bat mitzvah last June.
There, you wore your sister’s strappy gold heels and a black dress with an asymmetrical shoulder because she owed you big time. The bust was too big but you wore it like someone who has been to Paris and smoked cigarettes on a balcony.
You flirted with Sasha’s cousin from Chicago, and he asked you to dance during the slow songs. You could feel so many eyes on you. They were like one hundred hot palms rubbing your back after coming in from the cold.
Now you know: it is thrilling to see yourself being seen, and you never want to disappear again.
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